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G K Chesterton
A teacher who...
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Source: In...
A large section...
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Source:...
The cosmos is...
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Source:...
When you break...
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small...
Courage is getting...
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Experience which was...
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
A yawn is...
A yawn is a silent shout.
Source: In
Reason is itself...
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any realtion to reality at...
A puritan is...
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Men always talk...
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself;...
I've searched all...
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Artistic temperament is...
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Source: In
The whole difference...
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved...
All conservatism is...
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If...
People in high...
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily...
No man knows...
No man knows he is young while he is young.
Source: In
Love means to...
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Source: In...
Buddhism is not...
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Source: Professor de Worms, in The Man Who...
Courage is almost...
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to...
The golden age...
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Source: In